can pharmacy student work as technician?

[likecy89]

Hello. I've been having some trouble looking for an intern position at a retail pharmacy. I applied to CVS and Kroger summer internship and both rejected me. So, I applied to a technician position at a CVS store and actually the store manager really liked me and wanted to hire me... until he introduced me to the working pharmacist and came to realization that I'm an intern license holder, not a technician. The manager said he will ask someone in charge tomorrow and will let me know their decision. He told me that although he can hire technicians on spot, he cannot hire interns...
Do you know if pharmacy students with intern license cannot work as a technician at a retail pharmacy? I had no idea about this until today. I thought both were pretty much the same except I knew interns get paid more and gets to do more stuff like counseling patients.

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[BMBiology]

In order to hire you as a "technician", I think you would need to have a tech license. Your intern license of course allows you to do everything a tech does and more but they may not accept your intern license as a substitute.

Ask him if they can hire you as a clark. No license is needed. A problem you may run into is what to put on your resume. If you put intern and when they call CVS to verify then that would be a problem because your job title is a clark, not an intern.

Keep up the hard work. It's not easy but you have to do what you have to do.

 

[Rouelle]

Check your state laws. Some states (including mine) require you to surrender your tech permit upon issuance of your intern license. If such is the case in your state, you are only allowed to work as an intern and cannot be employed as a tech. That said, I have several friends who applied to jobs that were listed for techs, but were hired as interns. Good luck.